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I draw cartoons inspired by my business life.

I believe in the power of cartoons to illustrate and share business ideas. If a picture tells a thousand words, a cartoon tells a thousand PowerPoint slides.

I learned how to draw cartoons at Harvard Business School by doodling on the backs of business cases and publishing in the school paper in 2000. Some of my professors later commissioned my cartoons as teaching aids.

I started lampooning business and marketing in 2002 with a cartoon called Brand Camp that I emailed from my desk at General Mills. Brand Camp is now read by 50,000 people across the world every week.

I consult with organizations of all stripes to illustrate business ideas through cartoons. I've created cartoon campaigns for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business School, Unilever, Microsoft, method, CaseCentral, Epicurious.com, Boeing, Satmetrix, and others.

I frequently speak at campuses, companies, and conferences on marketing, cartooning, and how to spread business ideas. Here are a couple interviews I've given on these themes: Church of the Customer and Marketing Fresh Peel.  And here's a video from a talk I gave on cartooning as a metaphor for innovation.

My cartoons are featured every week in Marketing Week and have been published by Brandweek, Market Leader, FastCompany.com, New Products Magazine, and dozens of other business magazines, newspapers, and web sites. I've published two cartoon books.

When not cartooning, I'm the UK Managing Director of method, an entrepreneurial challenger brand that I helped bring to the UK in 2007.

I previously found cartoon fodder at Nestle, General Mills, an interactive agency called iXL, and Velvet, the first English language magazine in Prague. Here's my Linked-In profile.

San Francisco is home but I'm currently on assignment in London with my wife and two daughters.

I love getting emails at tom at tomfishburne dot com.